Team:RUM-UPRM/Engineering

Engineering Success

Phase I

I. Research

Before starting the design of our project, we turned to our communities to see what challenges they were facing and how we could use Synthetic Biology to help. We came across the contamination in the Island of Vieques and the health and biodiversity consequences faced.

II.Identify a Problem

We researched further into this situation and after consulting with experts in the field, we identified Mercury and RDX as two of the most present contaminants that we could bioremediate using Synthetic Biology.

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